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CHILDREN'S RIGHTS TO PROTECTION - FROM WHOM AND FROM WHAT?

A special seminar

Article 6 in the convention: Children have the right to live a full life. Governments should ensure that children survive and develop healthily.

Article 9 in the convention: Children should not be separated from their parents unless it is for their own good. For example, if a parent is mistreating or neglecting a child. Children whose parents have separated have the right to stay in contact with both parents, unless this might harm the child.

What is the right balance?

Speaker: Magistrate Kay Macpherson

Regional Co-ordinating Magistrate at the Broadmeadows Children’s Court and head of the Family Drug Treatment Court and the Koori Hearing Family Day Court (Marram – Ngala Ganbu)

A New Approach In Keeping Children with Family – the Family Drug Treatment Court.“

Expert commentator:

Professor Mark Mercurio, M.D.,M.A.

Dr. Mercurio is Chief of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine and Director of the Ethics Program at Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital. He is also Professor of Paediatrics and Director of the Program for Biomedical Ethics at Yale School of Medicine, and a member of the medical faculty for the Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study.